Saturday, October 25, 2008

IKEA

I went to IKEA today with a Chinese friend. Not surprisingly, it was a lot like any other IKEA you'll ever see, complete with swedish meatballs. The ice cream cones were only 1 yuan = about 15 cents. Hell yes. I got a really sweet poster of lingonberries for my wall. How Scandinavian is that?

Anyways, Chinese studying is still progressing quite fast. I bought a novel, "Sophie's World" in Chinese, and have been slowly working my way through the first chapter. It's really fun and learning new words is kind of like a mystery story. Very entertaining.

I'm trying to make an effort to spend more time with Chinese people speaking chinese than with Europeans speaking English. Tomorrow, I will cook Chinese food with my language partner. In other good news, next week, I get to help a grad student build a new reactor for his microbial fuel cell project, and the week after, I will babysit his entire project (feed the beasties substrate every day).